2012/1/16 Miguel Afonso <mafonso AT gmail DOT com>:
> Hi,
>
> Quick question: Is it possible to tell Bacula to do an "update
> slots" automatically whenever it has to mount a new tape from the
> autochanger?
>
> Why:  Some times bacula requests tapes that are not in the changer during a
> job. The manual procedure is to
>
> - Unmount/release (not quite needed, as it is already unmounted by then)
> - Remove/insert new labeled tapes
> - Update slots
> - Let Bacula do the mounting on next try, ou mount manually.
>
> I want to just load/unload tapes on the changer upon request, and let bacula
> do the rest, so I need bacula to do an "update slots" every time it mounts a
> tape, while in the middle of a job.
>
> Pre job scripts won't do it, as this happens inside a job.
>
> Any ideias?
>
How would bacula know you changed the tape in the archive unless you
told it to update slots? I guess you can run a job that issues an
update slots every 5 minutes but that would be wasteful and could get
you into trouble if the autochanger was initializing.

John

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